Lithification (from the Ancient Greek word lithos meaning 'rock' and the Latin-derived suffix -ific) is the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock. Essentially, lithification is a process of porosity destruction through compaction and cementation. Lithification includes all the processes which convert unconsolidated sediments into sedimentary rocks. Petrifaction, though often used as a synonym, is more specifically used to describe the replacement of organic material by silica in the formation of fossils.[1]
^Monroe, J.S.; Wicander, R.; Hazlett, R.W. (2006). Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth (6th ed.). Belmont: Thomson. pp. 203–204. ISBN 9780495011484.
Lithification (from the Ancient Greek word lithos meaning 'rock' and the Latin-derived suffix -ific) is the process in which sediments compact under pressure...
(authigenic) minerals. As a result, lithification of volcanic ash is one of the fastest low-temperature lithification processes. Alteration of volcanic...
and it undergoes diagenesis. This mostly consists of compaction and lithification of the sand. Early stages of diagenesis, described as eogenesis, take...
be formed from the lithification of these buried smaller fragments (clastic sedimentary rock), the accumulation and lithification of material generated...
from initial erosion through sediment transport and settling to the lithification of the sediments. However, the strict geological definition of sedimentation...
begin to undergo diagenesis. This mostly consists of compaction and lithification of the clay and silt particles. Early stages of diagenesis, described...
with silica. The specimen is transformed to stone (a process called lithification) as water is lost. For silicification to occur, the geothermic conditions...
mineral components as ions in solution. As rocks are buried, they undergo lithification and the connate fluids are usually expelled. If the escape route for...
such eruptions rapidly alters to palagonite as part of the process of lithification. Although conventional mafic volcanism produce little ash, such ash...
sediment after its initial deposition. This includes compaction and lithification of the sediments. Early stages of diagenesis, described as eogenesis...
eventually become sandstone and siltstone (sedimentary rocks) through lithification. Sediments are most often transported by water (fluvial processes),...
loose sediment into hard sedimentary rocks is called lithification. During the process of lithification, sediments undergo physical, chemical and mineralogical...
can sometimes be seen on the water surface. Carbonate cementation and lithification form slaps or pillars up to 4 m (13 ft) tall, and support a rich biodiversity...
depths greater than 1 km (0.62 miles), burial cementation completes the lithification process. Burial cementation does not produce stylolites. When overlying...
transformation of poorly consolidated sediments into sedimentary rock (lithification) is simply accompanied by a reduction in porosity and water expulsion...
of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record. In most cases, the...
Compaction of ceramic powders Compaction (geology), part of the process of lithification involving mechanical dewatering of a sediment by progressive loading...
evidence for a forgery was based on unfamiliarity with the processes of lithification; for example, they proposed that, based on the difference in texture...
(when lithified) as diamictite. Tillite is a sedimentary rock formed by lithification of till. Glacial till is mostly derived from subglacial erosion and...
dense that they would essentially form a rock. This process is known as lithification. Igneous rocks have crystallised from a melt or magma. The melt is made...
An armored mud ball is a small sedimentary structure, formed in flowing water, which consists of a fragment of clay or mud that has been rolled by currents...
Eolianite or aeolianite is any rock formed by the lithification of sediment deposited by aeolian processes; that is, the wind. In common use, however...
surrounding the remains, forming detailed casts of their structure. Lithification of the sediments formed protective nodules of ironstone around the now...
stratabound, typically Phanerozoic in age and epigenetic (form after the lithification of the carbonate host rocks). The ore minerals are the same as SEDEX...
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